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  1. Three-quarters of the land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth' (grist.org)
    ×2.40 56 #87 | 140 points by rntn 17 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Merry Christmas Everyone
    ×8.00 34 #45 | 1390 points by joshagilend 1 day ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. The number pi has an evil twin (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×2.59 29 #84 | 559 points by pkaeding 2 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
    ×3.24 31 #56 | 150 points by meridion 17 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Coccinelle (kernel.org)
    ×1.22 36 #78 | 18 points by josephcsible 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video] (youtube.com)
    ×1.61 32 #61 | 67 points by starbugs 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary (cnn.com)
    ×3.29 32 #37 | 127 points by bikenaga 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks (sherlockproject.xyz)
    ×2.66 26 #41 | 221 points by leonry 16 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. The Spy World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak (wsj.com)
    ×3.45 43 #52 | 11 points by albertop 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated (igorstechnoclub.com)
    ×2.75 20 #28 | 222 points by Igor_Wiwi 12 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
    ×5.27 17 #66 | 230 points by christophilus 1 day ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker (supersnowflakemaker.com)
    ×1.63 18 #36 | 107 points by shalanah 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (github.com/Jaennaet)
    ×4.85 15 #31 | 1046 points by ajdude 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Oregon house cat dies from eating product that tested positive for bird flu (cnn.com)
    ×2.55 18 #83 | 9 points by bikenaga 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?
    ×1.25 15 #50 | 122 points by thinking_banana 16 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (wolfram.com)
    ×2.10 12 #53 | 378 points by ryeguy_24 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Gordon Mah Ung has died (pcworld.com)
    ×1.92 10 #81 | 152 points by EA-3167 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app (github.com/hoarder-app)
    ×2.74 9 #72 | 436 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. On the nature of computing science (1984) (utexas.edu)
    ×1.88 9 #90 | 273 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.90 8 #70 | 664 points by ecliptik 2 days ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas (phys.org)
    ×1.11 7 #74 | 70 points by wglb 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023) (arxiv.org)
    ×1.49 6 #75 | 299 points by amichail 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Ruby 3.4.0 (ruby-lang.org)
    ×3.35 6 #33 | 353 points by aaronbrethorst 1 day ago | 207 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. The Rise of Post-Literate History (compactmag.com)
    ×2.28 13 #27 | 6 points by bertman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage (euronews.com)
    ×4.08 7 #8 | 42 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Ancient copper industry in King Solomon's mines did not pollute environment (eurekalert.org)
    ×1.19 4 #47 | 4 points by instagraham 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???